About the Conference
Learning Together, Teaching Together is the theme for our 2025 MDHS Learning and Teaching Conference.
This theme is all about exploring, celebrating and promoting rich opportunities for connections and ideas that advance learning and teaching.
Our program reflects that these rich connections involve communities, students, and academic and professional staff, and can span disciplines, professions, faculties, regions and countries.
Our conference begins with a paired keynote from two international leaders in the scholarship of teaching and learning, Professor Denise Stockley and Assistant Professor Melanie (Mel) Hamilton. Denise and Mel will illuminate connections and mechanisms they have developed and scaled to other places, to advance the scholarship of teaching and teaching.
Then the tricky part begins – navigating your way across an excitingly rich and diverse program. “Oh, the places you’ll go!”
Our Day 1 program includes streams on learning in communities, lived experience, student experience, wellbeing, simulation, assessment, inclusive education and more. Hopefully you’ll embrace the challenge to attend a session focussing on a less familiar topic.
On Day 2, we are thrilled to join our colleagues in the Faculty of Arts for a special shared day. We will hear how the MDHS-Arts New Horizons Fellows, Dr Sonia Shaikh and Dr Nicola Redhouse are creating new opportunities for learning together, teaching together (and researching together). We will then engage with a panel of Arts and MDHS students about learning with students for enhancing educational practices and directions. And across the day, we have unique opportunities for brainstorming, showcasing and challenging ideas across the disciplines.
A big thank you to Tim Beaumont, Dr Abi Brooker and the organising committee members for all the hard work on the program. I’m looking forward to joining you there.
Best wishes,
Liz
Professor Elizabeth Molloy,
Deputy Dean Education, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences.
27 October – 28 October 2025, The University of Melbourne, Parkville Campus
Contacts: Tim Beaumont | timothy.beaumont@unimelb.edu.au Dr Abi Brooker | brookera@unimelb.edu.au